Revolver

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A guitar-based rock song in the style of "And Your Bird Can Sing", [245] its lyrics celebrate a New York physician known for dispensing amphetamine injections to his patients. Supporting the lyrics, his stammering guitar riff, combined with the dissonance employed in the song's melody, conveys the difficulties of achieving meaningful communication. The Beatles recorded Revolver after taking a three-month break at the start of 1966, and during a period when London was feted as the era's cultural capital.

Gould views the title as a " McLuhanesque pun", since, more so than on their previous albums, the focus of Revolver appears to rotate from one Beatle to another with each song.He also considers Revolver to be "an innovative example of electronic music" as much as it broke new ground in pop by being "fundamentally unlike any rock album that had preceded it". Despite its origins as an innocent children's song, "Yellow Submarine" was adopted by the counterculture as a song promoting drugs, namely the barbiturate Nembutal. nb 22] The Leslie speaker treatment applied to Lennon's vocal originated from his request that Martin make him sound like he was the Dalai Lama singing from the top of a high mountain.

Reising and LeBlanc cite the song as an early example of how from 1966 onwards the Beatles' lyrics "adopted an urgent tone, intent on channeling some essential knowledge, the psychological and/or philosophical epiphanies of LSD experience" to their increasingly aware audience. The guitar sound on the album was more robust than before, through the use of new Fender amplifiers; the choice of guitars, which included Harrison using a Gibson SG as his preferred instrument; and the introduction of Fairchild 660 limiters for recording. Love You To" marked Harrison's first foray into Hindustani classical music as a composer, following his introduction of the sitar on " Norwegian Wood" in 1965. Much of Revolver’s music and lyrics reflect the band’s experiments with mind-expanding drugs – She Said She Said was inspired by a pre-fame Peter Fonda interrupting a Lennon acid trip.And the album’s mood never stays in one place for long; the mortality permeating the emotionally sophisticated Eleanor Rigby contrasts nicely with the innocence of Good Day Sunshine. Other suggestions included Bubble and Squeak, Beatles on Safari, Freewheelin' Beatles [308] and Pendulum before the band settled on Revolver. A. Pennebaker's documentary about Dylan's 1966 tour, Eat the Document, [58] on 27 May, [59] while Shankar agreed to become Harrison's sitar teacher on 1 June. With no thoughts of reproducing their new material in concert, the band made liberal use of studio techniques such as varispeeding, reversed tapes, close audio miking and automatic double tracking (ADT), in addition to employing musical instrumentation outside of their standard live set-up.

Rodriguez recognises "Taxman" as the first Beatles song written about "topical concerns"; he also cites its "abrasive sneer" as a precursor to the 1970s punk rock movement. Pepper, it was the product of a collaborative effort, with "the group as a whole being fully vested in creating Beatle music". Writing in Paste, Mark Kemp says that the album "completed [the Beatles'] transformation from the mop tops of three years earlier into bold, groundbreaking experimental rockers", [395] while Paul Du Noyer, in a review for Blender, said that it marked the group's arrival as "psychedelic gurus" and was a work in which the Beatles "revolutionized their own style and rock music itself . In addition, the group were vocal in their opposition to the Vietnam War, a stand that further redefined their public image in the US.The standard method had been to double the vocal by singing the same piece twice onto a multitrack tape, a task Lennon particularly disliked. Issued on 20 June, this album combined tracks that Capitol had omitted from the Beatles' previous US releases with songs that the band had originally issued on non-album singles. nb 26] In the US, the album's release was a secondary event to the controversy surrounding the recent publication there of Cleave's interview with Lennon, in which he remarked that the Beatles had become " more popular than Jesus".

The album topped the Record Retailer chart in the UK for seven weeks and the US Billboard Top LPs list for six weeks. Music critic Richie Unterberger describes it as a song that conveys "one of the first fine days of spring, just after you've fallen in love or started a vacation". The release of Revolver marked the last time that Capitol issued an altered UK Beatles album for the North American market. In January 2014, the Capitol version of Revolver was issued on CD for the first time, both as part of the Beatles' U. On "Taxman"] I can take off the guitar, I can take off the bass, and then I can even separate the snare drum and kick drum as well.Knowing the Beatles possessed unparalleled studio chemistry is one thing; seeing them nonchalantly chisel away at a musical idea and create greatness in real time is another thing entirely.